Is Castro an atheist?

[Matthew The Great]

I was just sort of wondering. I have never seen the answer to this answer anywhere...

(I think the answer is no but I just want to check)

[redvanguard]

No. He is a Atheist, he was raised a Catholic but later rejected Christianity.

[Matthew The Great]

Ah.

Thank you.

[Antijingo]

An atheist to begin with, Castro was excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in '62. This was meant to more or less shame him in the eyes of Catholic Cubans but was not consequential.

Castro makes spiritual, almost Christian allusions somewhat regularly, though I'm not sure if this is because of his own beliefs or purely for the benefit of the people.

Wikipedia has an artical on Castro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro).

"This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell." ~ Fidel Castro

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ." ~ Fidel Castro

[bolshevik butcher]

Maybe he just does this so he doesn't make religous cubans feel excluded?

[OleMarxco]

Perhaps so, perhaps not. But a real marxist-leninist (as he also claims to be) would never do such thing, as it would be as RedStar would've called it, to bow down on knees to the "godsuckers". And I doubt there's any many religious people among the cubans, but even if so, they're just probably rastafarians, seeing as Jamaica's "next door"! :D


Originally posted by "Wikipedia"
Castro is an atheist and has not been a practicing Roman Catholic (Christiany) since his childhood.

Apparantly he's beginning to get softer now that he comes closer to his death, however ;)

[Super Mario Conspiracy]

But I heard that Castro eased the restrictions on Catholics in Cuba. He opened up more churches or something, was it?

[Abstrakt]

Originally posted by OleMarxco+May 8 2005, 08:38 PM--> (OleMarxco @ May 8 2005, 08:38 PM) Perhaps so, perhaps not. But a real marxist-leninist (as he also claims to be) would never do such thing, as it would be as RedStar would've called it, to bow down on knees to the "godsuckers". And I doubt there's any many religious people among the cubans, but even if so, they're just probably rastafarians, seeing as Jamaica's "next door"! :D


"Wikipedia"
Castro is an atheist and has not been a practicing Roman Catholic (Christiany) since his childhood. [/b]
I am currently reading "CHE"....The Revolution is almost over, and it seems to me that he was never Marxist. When did he tell "the world" he was?

Also, I think that Fidel admires the type of person Jesus was. That doesn't mean he is trying to appeal to the masses, or claim christianity.

[Severian]

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2005, 02:38 PM
Perhaps so, perhaps not. But a real marxist-leninist (as he also claims to be) would never do such thing, as it would be as RedStar would've called it, to bow down on knees to the "godsuckers".
Apparently neither Marx nor Lenin was a "real Marxist-Leninist" then. Both favored toleration of religion. Marx and Engels argued against Bakunin's tendency to make atheism "an article of faith".link (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1874/06/26.htm) The Bolsheviks even emphasized that anti-religious propaganda must be conducted with "patience and considerateness." source (http://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/11.htm#092)

And it's probably true that Jesus, if he was a historical figure, was a national rebel against the Romans. It's certainly true that early Christians practiced a form of communism (not in the modern sense of course) and represented the discontent of the urban poor in the Roman Empire.


And I doubt there's any many religious people among the cubans, but even if so, they're just probably rastafarians, seeing as Jamaica's "next door"! :D

Try to learn something before talking.

There are a fair number of Christians in Cuba, as well as followers of Santeria, an African-descended religion somewhat similar to Voudou. No sizable number of Rastafarians that I ever heard of.

[bolshevik butcher]

Well if Jesus was real then i guess he was a great man, but i don't really believe in him as the sun of god, probably just some drunk rabbi.